Claim · model-written summary
Mechanical harvesting caused leaf mass loss.
- Taxon
- Sweet Orange
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- mechanically harvestede0
- Outcome
- leaf masse0
- Direction
- loste0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mechanically harvested trees lost leaf mass”
t0“Sweet Orange”
Title
Kelly T. Morgan; Smita Barkataky; Davie Kadyampakeni; et al. HortScience 2014. doi:10.21273/hortsci.49.6.835
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Heavy rain masked drought effects on water use and stem water potential in 2010.
- Intervention effect Harvest method left stem water potential unaffected in 2011 and 2012.
- Intervention effect Harvest method left water use unaffected across three years.
- Intervention effect Drought increased fruit pull force.
- Intervention effect Drought increased postharvest stem water potential.
- Intervention effect Short drought did not affect leaf area in 2011 and 2012.
- Intervention effect Drought increased fruit detachment force in low and moderate canopy density trees.
- Intervention effect Drought did not increase detachment force in high density trees.
- Intervention effect Mechanical harvest raised 2011 yield 17% in low canopy density trees relative to hand harvest.
- Intervention effect Mechanical harvest raised 2011 yield 8% in moderate canopy density trees relative to hand harvest.
- Observation High density plots had similar yield after mechanical harvest.
- Observation In 2012 low and moderate density yields decreased relative to 2011.
- Observation High density hand harvested yield increased 14% in 2012.
- Observation High density machine harvested yield increased 53% in 2012.
- Intervention effect Mechanical harvesting produced two to three times more debris than hand harvesting.
- Recommendation Authors concluded mechanical harvest did not adversely affect well watered citrus growth and production.